Our Team
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Meet Our Team
StEPS is a boutique educational consultancy and professional development coaching company with roots from 1998 when our Founder was invited by her Alma mater Warwick University to be their exclusive International Office representative alongside her teaching commitments in two premier universities of Pakistan.
In 2006, Saima founded StEPS and we now represent select international universities as consultants for their international recruitment, transnational education initiatives, and collaborations. We also offer independent guidance and counseling for student admissions and placement at prestigious universities worldwide.
Over the last 25 years, our focus has been on ensuring safe, supportive, and ethical admissions counseling through our StEPS2Uni service, while creating a strong alumni community for our clients and their parents. Through our professional development vertical StEPS2Success, we support alumni and other professionals through career coaching, outplacement support and professional development planning.
Our Team
CEO
Saima is a TESOL qualified Warwick Alumna, with over 25 years of experience in student counseling, mentoring, teaching, teacher training, and English language assessment.
Director
Tazkia is an enterprising management professional with diverse transferable skills developed over 17 years of working in the UK and Pakistan.

Nor Fadilah
Senior Consultant
Nor is an MBA graduate from Malaysia, with a specialization in digital marketing. She has ten years of experience in education.

Misbah Fehmi
Senior Consultant
Misbah has long been guiding parents and students on higher education application processes, entry requirements, subject selection.

Amna Khawar
Senior Consultant
Amna is a bilingual Montessori trained Learning Specialist with over 10 years of experience at Dubai International Academy.

Faiza Omer
HR Manager

Nir Mathur
Consultant
Nir, a medical student at King’s College London, brings over 3 years of experience guiding students through the medical school admissions process.

Anum Fatima
Consultant
Anum has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Human Resource Management. She studied Business Communication at Harvard Summer School